{"id":49360,"date":"2022-06-14T13:08:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49360"},"modified":"2022-06-14T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:08:23","slug":"jan-6-panel-delves-into-trumps-motives-with-eye-to-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49360","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 6 panel delves into Trump\u2019s motives with eye to DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Monday sought to establish a key element of its public case against former President Trump \u2014 that he knew his claims of election fraud had little merit or likelihood of success but sought to overturn the election anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s mindset in pursuing his baseless claims will be a fundamental part of the select committee\u2019s investigation. Showing he knew he was acting on fraudulent claims as he led efforts at the state and federal level to remain in power could demonstrate his culpability not just to the public, but to the Department of Justice for potential criminal proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House committee investigating the Jan.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49361,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49360\/revisions\/49361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}